Comments on American, and Japan, and China

But I think I know the problem. Because America is a new country, the people who live there have no sense of history. And if you have no concept of “the past”, it is extremely difficult to grapple with the idea of “the future”.

If you think a bar established in 1956 is “old” then you will not understand the idea of next week. So why bother building for it?

We see this short-termism in everything from the average American house, which falls over whenever the wind gets up, to the way chief executives are treated. In Japan, you are given 25 years before you are judged on whether you’ve turned the company around. In America, bosses are given two months. And if there’s been no financial about-turn, they are fired.

AIG and Lehman Brothers got caught out because they were being run by people who live only in the here and now. They couldn’t see that it would all come crashing down in the future because there’s no such thing.

-- Jeremy Clarkson

So that's British people asked why half of the population of world leader are idiots after they re-elected George W. Bush to his second term of the President of the United States.

The closest world leader's underdog - Japan is a country full of perverts.

China - the biggest population country in the world is a 神仙经常出没的地方...